Global Vaccines and Immunology

Online ISSN: 2397-575X

Global Vaccines and Immunology is an online peer reviewed open access journal that covers the studies of all aspects of investigative basic immunology and diseases related to the immune system and vaccine immunology. The journal publishes all topics in Immunology including cellular and molecular immunology, immunodeficiencies and related diseases, immunochemistry, microbial & fungal immunology, immune mechanisms, genetics of immunity, veterinary immunology, allergy, transplantation immunology, immunopharmacology, cancer immunology, and all accepts of vaccine research including, potential immune responses to vaccines, signalling mechanisms contributing to immune responses, animal models for immunologic diseases, vaccine development strategies and evaluation of efficacy, vector constructs, adjuvants and delivery systems, production, manufacturing, vaccine safety, regulatory, societal and legislation aspects as well as the history of vaccinology.

Submissions to GVI can take the form of original research, review, book review, clinical case study, clinical trial, data report, evidence-based medical research reports, observational studies, editorial, hypothesis & theory, methods, mini-review, opinion, perspective studies, commentaries, advances in technology. Submissions are handled by the Editor-in-Chief and a team of Editorial Board members.

The articles can be accessed online immediately on their publication. We are committed to providing authors with a rapid, fair, and constructive external peer-review process, with the goal of providing the majority of first decisions within 2 weeks.

Please, follow the Instructions for Authors. In the cover letter add the name and e-mail address of 5 proposed reviewers (we can choose them or not).

Copyright is retained by the authors and articles can be freely used and distributed by others. Articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published GVI, is properly cited.

Charles J. Malemud

Charles J. Malemud received the Ph.D. from George Washington University in 1973 and completed postdoctoral studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1977. Since 1977, Dr. Malemud has been a member of the faculty at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine where he is presently Professor of Medicine & Anatomy in the Division of Rheumatic Diseases and Senior Investigator in the Arthritis Research Laboratory. He has published 215 papers, chapters and reviews primarily in the field of chondrocyte biology. Professor Malemud is on the editorial board of several rheumatology, immunology and musculoskeletal journals and is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Clinical and Cellular Immunology.

Editorial Board

Yongqun Oliver He

Andras Perl

Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
Chief, Division of Rheumatology
Co-Director, M.D., Ph.D. Program
State University of New York, UMU,
College of Medicine, USA

Mark S. Kindy

Professor and Associate Chair for Research
Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology
Medical University of South Carolina, USA

Chang-Duk Jun

Bio Imaging Research Center, Director
Immune Synapse Research Center, Director
Professor, School of Life Sciences,
Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea

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Publication Charges

Global Vaccines and Immunology is an Open Access journal and we do not charge the end user when accessing a manuscript or any article. This allows the scientific community to view, download, distribution of an article in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited, under the term of "Creative Commons Attribution License". In line with other open access journals we provide a flat fee submission structure on the acceptance of a peer-reviewed article which covers in part the entirety of the publication pathway (the article processing charge). The process includes our maintenance, submission and peer review systems and international editing, publication and submission to global indexing and tracking organisations and archiving to allow instant access to the whole article and associated supplementary documents. We also have to ensure enough investment to secure a sustainable model which ethically, legally and financially stable.

The publication charges for Global Vaccines and Immunology are USD 1190/ GBP 960.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Why are your charges set at these levels?

All articles published in OA Text are open access. Open Access publishing implies that all readers, anywhere in the world, are allowed unrestricted to full text of articles, immediately on publication in OA Text Journals. The Article Publication Charges pay for the editorial and production costs of the journal, for hosting the website, publishing articles online, preparing HTML , PDF and XML versions of the articles and submitting the articles in electronic citation database like CrossRef.

Our financial goals are to:

Recover capitalization costs;

Produce sufficient revenue to allow for a sustainable and scalable publishing program, under continuous development;

Bend the publication-charge cost downward over time.

Who will pay the APC?

Corresponding author or Co-authors has to make the payment on acceptance of the article.

What type of articles are published for free?

Editorials, letters, comments, retractions, etc. will be published for free of charge. APC is applicable for the article types like Research, Review, Mini review, Case Reports, opinions etc.

When should I pay?

Corresponding author or the paying institutions should arrange for the payment once they are notified regarding acceptance of the article. APC is exempted for cases in which a wavier agreement has been made in-prior to submission.

*We request an immediate attention towards the payment as the articles will not be published unless the charges have been paid.

How do I pay?

Authors or institutions can make payments by two modes as per their convenience.

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Note: No taxes are included in this charge, taxes will be applicable as per the policies of the country of the payee. Additional transaction charges may be levied on the author.

Can I be eligible for wavier on APC?

The waiver request will be considered on a case-by-case basis, and will be provided accordingly.

*The Waiver requests must be made during the submission process and will not be accepted after processing of the manuscript.

Do I have to pay if my manuscript is rejected?

No, Article processing charges will not be applicable for articles rejected by the Editorial office.